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Good morning everyone. It has been a while since I last posted here, thats because I am busy with some stuff going around.

Anyways, this summer I will be doing my internship and I have been admitted and was told to be prepared to work with the Symphony framework for Php. According to what I heard, it seems like a very neat and professional framework and I guess Rahmu and others here have mentioned that they used it at some point in their work.

I personally, never used any framework yet in Php but tried to build my own small ones for some small projects for the sake of learning and widening my space for practice. Now what I would like you guys(who have an idea about it or worked with it) is to tell me a bit more about it(sort of a brief review) such as pros, cons, points of strengths, weakness, in addition if you can tell me about certain issues you faced on your way while working ot learning it would be great.

I got a book yesterday called A Gentle Introduction to symfony 1.4 Didnt start with it yet, but I will in the coming days.

Thanks for your help, opinion and comments. Have a good day.
The book you got is the absolute reference for Symfony 1.4. You will use it many times througout your work with Symfony.

If you wanto something to get you started quickly, you can try the jobeet.

1 Lesson /day, 24 days, this book will have covered the most important aspects of the framework.

Symfony 2 is about to be released. Make sure it's 1.4 that you need to study before starting all that.

Finally, I think it's a really good thing that you're working with Symfony. Highly stable framework, it is gaining a lot of popularity. It shares a great deal with Django and Rails. As for PHP, it is written in a strict OO PHP5, the code is very neat, you will enjoy playing with it.

Don't hesitate to ask for help here, I have worked with Symfony 1.4 for 6 months.
Thank you very much for the feedback rahmu, I just checked the link you provided, seems great!

Edit: I started following the Practical Symphony tutorial and I am finding it really interesting, started yesterday night and I just finished day 3(The Data Model) now, I am getting hooked into it ^_^ Seems like its a neat and powerful framework.